Zeynep Akata is a professor of computer science at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

where she leads the Explainable Machine Learning group. Akata is also a senior research scientist at the

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Education and career

Akata received her undergraduate degree in

Trakya University Trakya University ( tr, Trakya Üniversitesi), was established on July 20, 1982. The university is located in Edirne, at Turkey's European side (Eastern Thrace). Trakya University is a regional university with institutions and schools spread o ...

in Turkey and Ph.D. in computer science at the

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...

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-Rhônes-Alpes. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the

Max Planck Institute for Informatics The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik'', abbreviated ''MPI-INF'' or ''MPII'') is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It hosts ...

with

Bernt Schiele Bernt Schiele (born November 3, 1968, in Neustadt) is a German computer scientist. He is Max Planck Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and professor at Saarland University. He is known for his work in the field of computer vis ...

and at

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with

Trevor Darrell Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning and is one of the leading experts on topics such as deep learni ...

. Akata was an assistant professor at the

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from 2017 to 2019 before joining the

in 2019.

Research

Akata's research interests focus on explainable machine learning, multi-modal learning, and low-shot learning.

Selected awards and honours

* 2023 Alfried Krupp Prize * 2022 ECVA Young Researcher Award * 2021 German Pattern Recognition Award * 2019 ERC Starting Grant * 2019 Young Scientist Honour from the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation * 2014 Lise-Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science from the Max Planck Society

References

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